March DFO Meeting
The 4th Monday of March, NOT the last Monday of March!
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Attend and receive:
1) FREE copy of "Let's Go Birding!"
2) FREE handout of over 20 great links for Birding 2.0 --
Navigation links, Checklisting, Citizen Science, and Bird Finding links,
Birding Audio links, etc.
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Birding 2.0 -- Using Technology to Become a Better Birder
by Ted Floyd, Bill Schmoker, and Nathan Pieplow
Monday, March 22, 2010
I’m sure almost every DFO birder has experimented with technological
aids of one type or another; from websites to GPS to IPods singing out bird
calls in the field.
Ted, Bill, and Nathan will amaze you with their INTERACTIVE
presentation. They will showcase a wide variety of the latest technological
resources available in the market today for the tech-savvy birder. They will
demonstrate such things as:
• Birding software
• Bird and birding websites
• Handheld electronic gadgets
• Innovative electronic bird finding guides such as
the Colorado County Birding website
• Bird identification and vocalization sites and aids:
Macaulay, Xeno-Canto, Raven Lite
• eBird, COBIRDS
• Citizen science
• Navigation (GoogleMaps) and weather info.
• and more...
Ted Floyd is the editor of Birding, the flagship publication of the
American Birding Association. He is the author of numerous articles and
three recent books, including The Smithsonian Field Guide to the Birds of North
America (HarperCollins). Ted is a frequent speaker at bird festivals and
other birding events, and he is an instructor with the ABA’s Institute for
Field Ornithology.
His last two appearances before the DFO audience were “The Most Excellent
Birds in the World” (Oct. 2007), and “Birding at Night: The Ultimate Frontier
” (March 2009) about the mid to late summer molt migration of Colorado
chipping sparrows.
Bill Schmoker’s greatest professional accomplishment is being a
dedicated middle school science teacher in Longmont where he lives with this
wife
and son. He is the past president of Colorado Field Ornithologists and in
his spare time he is an accomplished nature photographer whose work has
appeared in magazines, field guides, newspapers, interpretive signage,
advertisements, corporate logos, websites, and other venues. He is also a
busy
blogger, columnist, instructor, speaker, and tour leader for ABA and other
organizations, and he is a Nikon Birding ProStaffer. Bill thrilled us with
his
photos in his recent program “To the Sea and Shore” (Jan. 2010), and prior
to that with “A Birder’s New Year’s Resolutions for 2006 (Jan. 2006).”
Visit Bill at http://schmoker.org or http://brdpics.blogspot.com.
Nathan Pieplow teaches writing at the University of Colorado at
Boulder, and is the distinguished editor of CFO’s quarterly journal Colorado
Birds
. Nathan has been a key figure in the development and implementation of
the online Colorado County Birding website, an innovative electronic
birdfinding guide, and of the Colorado Birding Trail, with its unique emphasis
on
creating partnerships between private ranchers and the state's birding
community. Nathan is a contributing author to Birding and an instructor with
the
ABA’s Institute for Field Ornithology. He is also an active natural-sounds
recordist and he blogs at Earbirding.com.
All persons in attendance on March 22nd will receive a FREE copy of
"Let's Go Birding!", a new beginner's guide by Ted Floyd and Bill Schmoker,
published by the American Birding Association. Thanks to the ABA for this
special offer.
Whether you love your computer, Blackberry, and IPod or hate them,
join us for an entertaining and informative presentation by three of Colorado’s
top birders and leaders in the use of technology in the pursuit of our
feathered friends.
April 26, 2010
Nathan Pieplow -- Spring Migrant Refresher Course
on Calls and Songs
May through July - No DFO meetings
The Denver Field Ornithologists monthly meetings are held in Ricketson
Auditorium at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science in City Park. These
meetings are free and open to the public and occur on the 4th Monday of each
month August through April (except December). Park on the north side of the
Museum and walk around and enter through the Museum's west door. Plan to
arrive by 7:15 p.m.; DOORS OPEN BY 7:00 AND ARE LOCKED AT 7:30 P.M. If late,
you can enter through the security/volunteer door, but this does create
problems for our hosts at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.
Submitted by Chris A. Blakeslee - DFO Board Member
Centennial, Colorado
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